Membership.GetUser Method (System.Web.Security)

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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/.NET Framework 3.5

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.NET Framework Class Library

Membership..::.GetUser Method

Gets the information from the data source and updates the last-activity date/time stamp for the current logged-on membership user.

Namespace: System.Web.Security
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration)

Public Shared Function GetUser As MembershipUser

Visual Basic (Usage)

Dim returnValue As MembershipUser

returnValue = Membership.GetUser()

public static MembershipUser GetUser()

Visual C++

public:
static MembershipUser^ GetUser()

JScript

public static function GetUser() : MembershipUser

Return Value

Type: System.Web.Security..::.MembershipUser
A MembershipUser object representing the current logged-on user.

Remarks

GetUser()()() retrieves the user information from the data source and creates a MembershipUser object populated with the returned data. If you use one of the GetUser overloads that does not take a username parameter, GetUser returns the information for the current logged-on membership user. The current logged-on membership user is identified by the Name of the user in the current HttpContext.

You can also specify whether you want GetUser to update the last-activity date/time stamp for the user being retrieved using the userIsOnline parameter. Of the GetUser overloads that do not take a userIsOnline parameter, GetUser() implicitly updates the last-activity date/time stamp for the user. GetUser(System.String) and GetUser(System.Object) do not.

Examples

The following code example updates the last-activity date/time stamp for the current logged-on membership user and displays the user name in the ASP.NET page.

Visual Basic

<%@ Page Language="VB" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

Dim currentUser As MembershipUser

Public Sub Page_Load()
  currentUser = Membership.GetUser()
End Sub

</script>
<html  >
<head>
<title>Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">
Welcome <b><%=currentUser.UserName%></b>.
</form>

</body>
</html>

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="System.Web.Security" %>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<script runat="server">

MembershipUser currentUser;

public void Page_Load()
{
  currentUser = Membership.GetUser();
}

</script>
<html  >
<head>
<title>Home Page</title>
</head>
<body>

<form id="form1" runat="server">
Welcome <b><%=currentUser.UserName%></b>. 
</form>

</body>
</html>

Platforms

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

Reference

Membership Class

Membership Members

GetUser Overload

System.Web.Security Namespace

Other Resources

Introduction to Membership